Anonymous wrote:Women need to own every decision about their fertility and having/raising babies. Period.

I want to add that they should have every right and power over their bodies, minds, freedom and education. They should not be married off, forced to have sex, forced into celibacy etc either.

Forcing women to carry unwanted babies is also stealing fertility

Women need to own every decision about their fertility and having/raising babies. Period.

Anonymous wrote:The Jennifer Anniston story reminds me of this. So many times a man wastes a woman’s time only to divorce or leave her in her 30s and childless. While the man goes on to marry and have children the woman is left robbed of her fertile and out of time to have kids of her own.

This is criminal!

LOL! Sure.

Isn't it on woman to figure out the best for yourself. May be they are too afford to make the bold decision if it is not working out. There is a limit to playing victim for everything.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing is women have right to divorce these men and move on, freeze embryos etc but they chose to stay in these fruitless pointless marriages. So it's the women mistake just as much as his avoidance of commitment to her

+1 No one is 'stealing' anyone's fertility. There are many ways to become a mother.

How is freezing the embryo of your ex husband a solution to infertility? And what other ways? Don’t say adoption, which is not a solution to infertility.

Freeze eggs not embryos, Genius.

Spoken by someone who does not know a lot about the infertility journey.

Anonymous wrote:Jennifer Aniston. Victim.

What a world.

She actually didn't say this at all. She wishes that she froze her eggs. But she didn't say that either of her husbands prevented her from having children, or that she didn't want children. She tried, and failed.

Anonymous wrote:The Jennifer Anniston story reminds me of this. So many times a man wastes a woman’s time only to divorce or leave her in her 30s and childless. While the man goes on to marry and have children the woman is left robbed of her fertile and out of time to have kids of her own.

This is criminal!

Women are not meek, weak creatures. We are capable of making choices about our fertility. No one “stole” her fertility. If you choose to put off having kids, you have to accept the consequences. You might miss your chance.

Jennifer Aniston. Victim.

What a world.

Anonymous wrote:The reverse happened to me. Dated a woman for 4 years and eventually broke up. Years later I learned she was infertile and knew the entire time

Unless you talked marriage and kids with her there was no point mentioning her medical struggles

Did any of you actually read the article? Including OP? I did, and it wasn’t her accusing anyone of stealing her fertility.

Anonymous wrote:The Jennifer Anniston story reminds me of this. So many times a man wastes a woman’s time only to divorce or leave her in her 30s and childless. While the man goes on to marry and have children the woman is left robbed of her fertile and out of time to have kids of her own.

This is criminal!

Total BS. you are implying women have zero agency and they cannot decide to move on from a dead-end relationship. It's women like you who perpetuate the awful cycle of "wasting one's good years"

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Anonymous wrote:This happened to me.

Me too. I always knew I wanted kids. My husband said he wanted kids. He knew I would never have married a man who didn't want kids. Many years later, he revealed that his plan from the start was to convince me to change my mind.

I'm so sorry. Men who do this are simply awful.

Anonymous wrote:That isn’t what she said. She tried. It didn’t work. Her husbands didn’t steal it from her.

She tried IVF so she could become pregnant. In a word, she was infertile and could not get pregnant even with IVF. No man stole her fertility. The fertility was not there to begin with.

What she should have done is retrieved her egg (if she had eggs), taken the sperm of her husband (or from the sperm bank) and got a surrogate to have a baby. This is becoming quite common among celebrities - Kim Kardashian, Priyanka Chopra etc.

Jennifer Aniston wanted a baby with her own genes. It is quite possible that she did not have any viable eggs to retrieve and create a baby out of. She could have had a baby through some other means though even if it was not her genes and maybe she did not want that.

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Anonymous wrote:This happened to me.

Me too. I always knew I wanted kids. My husband said he wanted kids. He knew I would never have married a man who didn't want kids. Many years later, he revealed that his plan from the start was to convince me to change my mind.

That's horrible.

WTF. The woman has a choice here too.